Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
| 2 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 3 | and by hell or high water it was gon na be on that . |
| 4 | The Orynthia lived on , despite it all — off to Honduras again in March , 1840 , where this time it was the cook who ended up in prison : William Rhodes took her out to Fernando Po , Ascension and India in 1841 , and William Cox was master again on a voyage to the Cape and Burma in 1843 , in which year he sold his half-share to Henry Johnson , a City merchant . |
| 5 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 6 | Every two or three yards she was accosted , ‘ Signora ! |
| 7 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 8 | For five or ten minutes we were all rushing up and down passages and in and out of rooms , challenging each other and answering , ‘ Smee ? |
| 9 | When those patients with none or one recorded diabetes related problem were compared with those with two or more problems they were found to have significantly better control . |
| 10 | Where a title appeared as a class reader in three or more schools it was regarded as ‘ well-used ’ overall . |
| 11 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 12 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 13 | Well you make notes when you 're listening to customers and make notes when you were questioning me did I and it was hard to even if it 's only four or five questions it was hard to pull together . |
| 14 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |
| 15 | The way she looked at them was odd , because there was no story here as yet , no drama whose next development or twist of plot or big scene we were all awaiting ; remember , they had not yet met or even looked at each other . |
| 16 | Where peasants have inferior legal and civil rights to those enjoyed by the rich and powerful , in fact , whatever the theory , they can be coerced non-economically , and on Wallachian , Andalusian or Sicilian estates they were . |
| 17 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 18 | There were one or two rifles they were er , you know , |
| 19 | The first twelve months or two years it was very good . |
| 20 | David battled for three minutes to restart his heart , then had him rushed to hospital where last night he was critically ill with burns and internal injuries . |
| 21 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 22 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 23 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
| 24 | So if our hunting rug employs pastel rather than rich shades it was most probably not made in Persia , but in India or Pakistan . |
| 25 | Jim says that some man he was doing a job for |
| 26 | You could leave them behind so much more easily , to get on with the present , if you knew that some day you were going to return . |
| 27 | And his smile made Shelley blush again , although this time she was n't as angry as last time with him for kissing her . |
| 28 | The effect held up ( although this time it was somewhat smaller ) , and we published the first paper describing the results in 1980 . |
| 29 | Just to remind everybody that we 've decided that this year we were n't going to put pressure on people . |
| 30 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |